Are you scared about the dreaded red mite? Don't allow red mite get to the stage where they are crawling up your arm through the day. I still have tiny pinprick bites from last years flurry of mites. Practical Poultry Magazines are now catching on with this fear of Red Mite and regularly producing articles about them, with next months issues on home remedies (I reccomend you get this issue). One of the simplest ways of preventing red mite is protecting your coop with diatom or poultry shield and keeping your coop in direct sunlight for a day every now and then. But when you get them they are almost impossible to get rid off. And I now feel like there is nothing I can do but keep the the population of Red Mite down, until I can afford a plastic coop. But, for now I think I have spotted something on the market really good. Regency Poultry are now stocking something called Fortefog Fumers. They are meant to fume out your house decimating any insects and red mite and leaving no residue in the house after 2 hours so the chickens can come back in safely.
Please check it out at : http://www.regencypoultry.com/heathcare/redmite_and_Lice/fortefog_mini_fumer.htm
Please check it out at : http://www.regencypoultry.com/heathcare/redmite_and_Lice/fortefog_mini_fumer.htm
